BUILDING ADJECTIVE CLAUSES
What is an adjective clause?
Well, what is an adjective? It is a word that describes a noun, i.e. 'She is a hard-working
student. The adjective 'hard-working' describes the student. Now an adjective clause is
basically a sentence, or clause, which describes a noun. She is a student. She works hard.
She is a student who works hard. Notice that while the adjective comes before a noun, an
adjective clause comes after a noun. The noun 'student' is being described by the adjective
clause 'who works hard'.
In order to build an adjective clause, you'll need to have two sentences to start with. The
second, or clause sentence, would be describing a noun in the first sentence, or main
clause. In the sentence above, 'a student' is being described by the sentence 'she works
hard'. You'll need to identify the same words, i.e. 'a student' and 'she'. In the second
sentence, 'she' is a subject and a person. Check the chart below for a WH-word that you
can use. For 'she' in the category of subject/person, the WH-words who and that are
possible. Let's choose who. Now switch the words she and who. This will give us who
works hard. Then we place the clause after the noun that it is describing, and we've got an
adjective clause.
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Nouns & Pronouns
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